ALL-NIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does all-night mean? 

• ALL-NIGHT (adjective)
  The adjective ALL-NIGHT has 1 sense:

1. lasting, open, or operating through the whole night

  Familiarity information: ALL-NIGHT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALL-NIGHT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lasting, open, or operating through the whole night

Synonyms:

all-night; nightlong; overnight

Context example:

an overnight trip

Similar:

long (primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified)

 Context examples 

A patient, evidently, and possibly an all-night sitting.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Unfortunately, when running free, it is impossible to lash the wheel, so I faced an all-night watch.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was soon evident to me that he was now preparing for an all-night sitting.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These drugs are often used by young adults at all-night dance parties, dance clubs, and bars.

(Club Drugs, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

The telegram which we eventually received came late one night just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came down to breakfast in the morning.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of the three shops it contained was for rent and another was an all-night restaurant approached by a trail of ashes; the third was a garage—Repairs.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)